Edward terry and william hayter



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STOUKING.

N0. 488,4"87. Patented Dec. 20, 1892.

rrED STATES ATENT OFFICE,

EDWARD TERRY AND lVILLIAM HAYTER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

STOCKING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,487, dated December 20, 1892.

Application filed April 4-., 1892. Serial No. 427,732. (No specimens.) Patented in England December 27.1889, No. 20,778.

T at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that We, EDWARD TERRY and WILLIAM HAYTER, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at London, England,

5 have invented a new and useful Improved Manufacture of Stockings, (for which we have obtained a patentin Great Britain, No. 20,778, bearing date December 27, 1889,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to making stockings to wear longer than they do now, by the introduction of additional threads in the knitting, which We term treble splicing.

To enable our invention to be properly understood we will describe how the same is carried into effect by aid of the accompanying drawing of a stocking made according to our invention.

The treble splice is produced by means of 50 an extra thread carrier or thread layer added to the machine, the said carrier being used or brought into work by the operator at B, as required. In this particular make of goods, the ordinary method of manufacture is followed from E, F, to A O; and a thread carrier is introduced at A which carries a stout extra thread, along with the yarn used in the leg to strengthen the heel for wearing purposes. An extra carrier is also introduced at B, where thread carrier A is thrown out of gear, allowing the extra carrier to laya finer extra thread than is put in the ankle and heel over the ankle part H up to point 0., which thread is continued down to D, and afterward the toe end is finished off with the stouter thread.

By the means we have described, we are able to extra splice all over the wearing parts without using so extra stout a yarn, as is usually used in the parts G, and apparently without increasing the thickness of the parts which greatly add to the wear.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:-

A stocking having the lower part thereof reinforced in rear by a stout thread and in front by a fine thread, substantially as and for the purposes described.

EDWARD TERRY. WILLIAM HAYTER. Witnesses:

GEORGE H. WIGG, ERNEST PAY. 

